ActiveAdmin SlimSelect

An Active Admin plugin to use SlimSelect.js.

Features:

• Modern select inputs with search
• AJAX content loading
• Single and multiple selection support

Install

Add to your Gemfile and run bundle install:

gem 'activeadmin_slimselect'

Then use the input with as: :slimselect in your Active Admin resource configuration.

With Propshaft

No additional setup required — the gem automatically registers its JavaScript and CSS with ActiveAdmin.

With Sprockets

Add to your ActiveAdmin styles (app/assets/stylesheets/active_admin.scss):

@import 'activeadmin/slimselect_input';

Add to your ActiveAdmin javascripts (app/assets/javascripts/active_admin.js):

//= require activeadmin/slimselect/slimselect
//= require activeadmin/slimselect_input

Why two separated scripts? This way you can include a different version of SlimSelect.js if you prefer.

Usage

Basic Form Input

# ActiveAdmin article form conf:
form do |f|
  f.inputs 'Article' do
    f.input :title
    f.input :category, as: :slimselect
    f.input :tags, as: :slimselect, collection: Tag.all
  end
  f.actions
end

With AJAX Remote Data

For associations with many records, use AJAX loading:

form do |f|
  f.inputs 'Article' do
    f.input :title
    f.input :tags,
            as: :slimselect,
            collection: f.object.tags,
            input_html: {
              'data-opt-remote': admin_tags_path(format: :json),
              'data-opt-text': 'name',
              'data-opt-value': 'id',
              placeholder: 'Search for a tag...'
            }
  end
  f.actions
end

Filter Input

# Without remote items (no AJAX):
filter :category_id_eq, as: :slimselect, collection: Category.all

# With remote items:
filter :tags_id_eq,
       as: :slimselect,
       collection: [],
       input_html: {
         'data-opt-remote': '/admin/tags.json',
         'data-opt-text': 'name',
         'data-opt-value': 'id',
         placeholder: 'Search for a tag...'
       }

Options

Pass options using input_html data attributes:

Attribute	Description	Default
data-opt-remote	URL for AJAX search requests (GET)	-
data-opt-text	Field to use as option label	text
data-opt-value	Field to use as select value	value
data-opt-*	Any SlimSelect setting in kebab-case	-
data-opts	JSON object to override all SlimSelect settings	-

Examples

# Custom SlimSelect settings via data attributes:
f.input :category,
        as: :slimselect,
        input_html: {
          'data-opt-close-on-select': 'false',
          'data-opt-allow-deselect': 'true',
          placeholder: 'Select a category...'
        }

# Or via JSON object:
f.input :category,
        as: :slimselect,
        input_html: {
          'data-opts': '{"closeOnSelect":false,"allowDeselect":true}',
          placeholder: 'Select a category...'
        }

JSON Endpoint

For AJAX to work, enable JSON routes in ActiveAdmin (controlled by download_links option):

index download_links: [:csv, :json] do
  # ...
end

Customize the JSON response by overriding as_json in your model:

def as_json(options = nil)
  super({ only: [:id], methods: [:name] }.merge(options || {}))
end

SlimSelect Documentation

For all available settings and events, see the SlimSelect documentation.

Development

After checking out the repo, run bin/setup to install dependencies. Then, run rake spec to run the tests. You can also run bin/console for an interactive prompt that will allow you to experiment or RAILS_ENV=test bin/rails s.

To install this gem onto your local machine, run bundle exec rake install. To release a new version, update the version number in version.rb, and then run bundle exec rake release, which will create a git tag for the version, push git commits and the created tag, and push the .gem file to rubygems.org.

Contributing

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/varyonic/activeadmin_slimselect.

License

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.